Global challenges --- We have been thinking in terms of local communities to face global challenges. This simple way of thinking is insuficient to adress our problems as specie. This kind of agreements is an advance. However, UNGA is still a place dominated by political interests i.e. local interests. One importan difference whit SDGs is the creation of the Open Working Group where it was possible to discuss this issues from a less political and more scientific perspective.

Source author: Carlos Arturo Garcia Bonilla carlos.garcia@cancilleria.gov.co